Title: Cascade Forge – No-Code Workflow Automation &amp; Webhooks
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# Cascade Forge – No-Code Workflow Automation & Webhooks

 By [avakodeforge](https://profiles.wordpress.org/avakodeforge/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cascadeforge.1.8.8.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cascadeforge/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cascadeforge/#developers)

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## Description

Cascade Forge is a no-code workflow automation plugin built into WordPress. Define
a trigger (something that happens), add one or more actions (what to do next), and
Cascade Forge runs the flow automatically — no code, no cron hacks, no external 
service required.

Nothing has to be written as JSON. Every trigger and every step draws its own form
from the parameters it declares, conditions are rows of field / operator / value,
and a picker drops values from the event into any field. If you would rather not
start from a blank screen, the plugin ships twenty ready-made flows you can import
as drafts.

#### Free

Unlimited flows, unlimited runs, no feature counters.

 * Visual flow builder (form editor and drag-and-drop canvas), unlimited active 
   flows
 * No JSON required: each trigger and each step renders a form built from the parameters
   it declares, and an “Insert field” menu next to every text field drops in a value
   from the event with a real example beside it. The JSON textareas are still there
   under an “Advanced” toggle, and anything the form cannot draw safely — a nested
   condition group, a key no schema knows — opens as JSON with an explanation instead
   of being quietly rewritten
 * A library of 20 ready-made flows, grouped by the plugin they lean on. Import 
   lands a draft, never a live automation, and a recipe this site cannot run says
   which plugin is missing instead of showing a dead button
 * Conditions on any trigger field, with AND/OR groups
 * Retry with exponential backoff, a dead-letter queue you can read and act on, 
   and a run log you control the retention of (Settings  Log retention, 1–365 days)
 * An email when a run gives up or needs a manual decision — at most one per flow
   every 15 minutes, so a broken endpoint sends one message, not a storm (Settings
   Notifications)
 * Dispatch concurrency: a limit on how many runs execute at once, so a burst of
   events queues the rest instead of all firing together (Settings  Engine)
 * A Failed view on the Runs screen: which step a run stopped on, the error it stopped
   with, a preview of what it was carrying, and one button that starts it again 
   from that step
 * A “run was dead-lettered” trigger, so a flow of your own can page you, open a
   ticket or post to a channel when another flow gives up
 * 11 WordPress triggers: post published, user registered, user login, comment received,
   comment approved, post meta updated, term updated, attachment uploaded, user 
   role changed, user deleted, password reset
 * All 7 WooCommerce triggers when WooCommerce is active: order created, order status
   changed, payment complete, subscription status changed, refund created, product
   stock low, review added
 * 9 actions: send email, show admin notice, log a message, update post meta, update
   user meta, create term, create user, FormForge admin notify, and outbound webhook(
   POST, with HMAC signing and an SSRF guard)
 * Forge Suite event triggers, for the events those plugins publish from their own
   free cores: GuardForge IP lockout and integrity scan, FormForge submissions, 
   FieldForge custom fields updated and field group saved, LangForge translation
   published, RankForge post analysis

#### Pro

Cascade Forge Pro is a separate add-on installed alongside this free plugin. Its
code is not part of this download — nothing above is a locked or greyed-out version
of it. Installing it adds:

 * Inbound webhooks: a public URL per flow, HMAC-verified, de-duplicated and rate-
   limited
 * Five more event triggers, for events only a paid sibling module can fire: GuardForge
   WAF block, malware finding and lockdown toggle; LangForge translation QA failure;
   RankForge whole-site audit complete
 * Scheduled triggers: start a flow every so many minutes, or at a time of day on
   the weekdays you choose, read in the site’s own timezone. A stretch of downtime
   produces one catch-up run, never a backlog of them
 * A trigger for any WordPress hook: add a hook name to an allow-list on the Settings
   screen and it becomes a trigger in the editor, so a flow can react to an event
   no catalogue knows about
 * Flow control steps: wait / delay, wait for a person’s approval, conditional branch
 * Wait for approval: the flow pauses and e-mails one person two links. Whichever
   they click is recorded, the run continues from where it paused, and later steps
   can read who decided and what they decided. Unanswered requests expire on a timer
   you set, and you choose in advance whether that counts as a rejection, an approval,
   or a reason to stop
 * Retry every dead-lettered run of a flow at once, each from the step it stopped
   on
 * Generic HTTP request step
 * Messaging steps: Slack, Discord, Telegram, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Gmail
   send
 * CRM and SaaS steps: ActiveCampaign, Pipedrive, Close, Mailchimp, Notion, Airtable,
   Google Sheets
 * Storage steps: Dropbox, S3-compatible upload, media sideload from a URL
 * Forge Suite action steps: LangForge translate post, GuardForge alert
 * AI recipe generator — describe a workflow in plain language, get a draft flow.
   It costs 3 Forge credits per draft, and the number is printed on the button before
   you press it. The 20-recipe library in the free plugin costs nothing

A Pro licence also includes priority email support while it is active. It ends when
the licence expires and comes back on renewal.

Cascade Forge is part of the **Forge Suite**. Learn more and get Pro at https://
avakode.com.

### External services

This plugin can make outbound HTTP requests. What is sent depends on which of the
following you use — activating the plugin does not contact any server and does not
schedule anything that would. This is the whole list: the plugin’s code makes no
other request.

**Outbound webhook action.** A flow you build can end with an “Outgoing webhook (
POST)” step. What is sent: a POST to the URL you typed into that step, with the 
optional body you typed, a `Content-Type: application/json` header and, only if 
you filled in the optional signing secret, an `X-CascadeForge-Signature` header 
that carries `sha256=` and the HMAC signature of the body (the secret itself is 
not sent). Like any WordPress HTTP request it also carries WordPress’s standard 
User-Agent, which names your WordPress version and your site’s address. Cascade 
Forge does not know or choose the destination in advance, and no bundled recipe 
ships with this step pre-filled. What is received: the HTTP status code, used to
mark the run successful, failed or blocked. When: only while a flow containing this
step is actually running.

Cascade Forge Pro (a separate add-on, not part of this download) adds outbound steps—
HTTP request, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, ActiveCampaign,
Pipedrive, Close, Mailchimp, Notion, Airtable, Google Sheets, Dropbox, S3 — that
send data only to destinations you configure per step, subject to those services’
own terms, plus an AI recipe generator that sends your prompt to our servers for
a response.

## Screenshots

[⌊The flow editor: a trigger such as "WooCommerce — order created", conditions as
rows of field, operator and value, then the steps, each drawn as its own form with
an "Insert field" menu that drops in a value from the event.⌉⌊The flow editor: a
trigger such as "WooCommerce — order created", conditions as rows of field, operator
and value, then the steps, each drawn as its own form with an "Insert field" menu
that drops in a value from the event.⌉[

The flow editor: a trigger such as “WooCommerce — order created”, conditions as 
rows of field, operator and value, then the steps, each drawn as its own form with
an “Insert field” menu that drops in a value from the event.

[⌊The same flow on the drag-and-drop canvas.⌉⌊The same flow on the drag-and-drop
canvas.⌉[

The same flow on the drag-and-drop canvas.

[⌊The recipe library: ready-made flows grouped by the plugin they use. Importing
one creates a draft, never a live automation.⌉⌊The recipe library: ready-made flows
grouped by the plugin they use. Importing one creates a draft, never a live automation
.⌉[

The recipe library: ready-made flows grouped by the plugin they use. Importing one
creates a draft, never a live automation.

[⌊The Runs screen: each run with its status and the order, user or post it was about.⌉⌊
The Runs screen: each run with its status and the order, user or post it was about
.⌉[

The Runs screen: each run with its status and the order, user or post it was about.

[⌊"Test this flow": which conditions matched and, step by step, the exact request,
message or meta each step would produce, without sending or writing anything.⌉⌊"
Test this flow": which conditions matched and, step by step, the exact request, 
message or meta each step would produce, without sending or writing anything.⌉[

“Test this flow”: which conditions matched and, step by step, the exact request,
message or meta each step would produce, without sending or writing anything.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `flowforge` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install through Plugins
    Add New.
 2. Activate Cascade Forge through the Plugins menu.
 3. Open Cascade Forge  Flows and create your first automation.

## FAQ

### Do I need an account or API key for the free version?

No. The free plugin runs entirely on your own server. See “External services” above
for exactly what this download does and does not contact.

### How do I get the Pro features?

Pro features ship in a separate “Cascade Forge Pro” add-on. Install this free plugin
first, then add Pro from https://avakode.com.

### How many flows can I create?

As many as you like. There is no cap on flows, active or draft, and none on runs.
How long run history is kept is a setting (Settings  Log retention), not a limit.

### Which triggers and actions do I get for free?

Every WordPress and WooCommerce trigger, the sibling events those plugins publish
from their own free cores, the “a run was dead-lettered” trigger, and the nine actions
listed above — including the outbound webhook. Nothing in the free plugin is switched
off waiting for a licence; the Pro catalogue is a separate download and simply is
not there until you install it.

### Does Cascade Forge work with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage?

Yes. Cascade Forge declares itself compatible with High-Performance Order Storage,
and it reads and writes orders only through WooCommerce’s own order functions, so
it does not depend on whether orders are kept in posts or in WooCommerce’s order
tables. Two things are worth knowing when a flow works on orders. The “Update post
meta” step sets the meta on the order itself when the ID you give it is an order’s.
The “Post meta updated” trigger listens to WordPress post meta, and under High-Performance
Order Storage an order’s meta is not post meta, so it is not a reliable trigger 
for orders (with compatibility mode on, WooCommerce may still copy order meta to
posts); for orders, use the WooCommerce triggers: order created, order status changed,
payment complete and refund created.

### Do I have to write JSON?

No. Every trigger and every step renders a form built from the parameters it declares,
and conditions are rows: field, operator, value. The JSON textareas survive under
an “Advanced” toggle for anyone who wants them. If a flow contains something the
form cannot draw without risking your data — a nested condition group, a parameter
no schema knows about, an OR group on a site without the Pro add-on — that panel
opens as JSON with a note saying why, rather than being redrawn and silently truncated.
Without JavaScript the screen falls back to the plain editor.

### Where do the ready-made recipes come from?

They ship with the plugin as data, not as model output: 20 flows whose every trigger
and action is a real id in Cascade Forge’s catalogue, checked by the test suite 
against the live registries. Some of them lean on ids that belong to the Pro add-
on or to a sibling plugin, so a recipe this site cannot run yet says which plugin
it needs instead of offering a button that would fail. Importing one creates a draft—
it cannot switch itself on — and any credential a step needs is left blank on purpose
so you fill it in and read the flow before turning it on. Recipes cost nothing.

### What happens when a flow fails in the middle of the night?

The run is kept. The Failed view on the Runs screen shows the step it stopped on,
the error, and a preview of the payload it was carrying with anything token-shaped
blanked out. Retry writes a new run that starts at that step with the original payload,
so the steps that already succeeded do not run twice. It is refused if you have 
edited the flow since the failure, because the step it stopped on is then no longer
that step; if the step’s own connection is already known to be access-revoked, the
button reads “Fix access, then resume” instead, because retrying now would only 
fail the same way again; and if the run stopped not knowing whether its last step
reached its target, retrying could repeat that exact request, so the free screen
explains that instead of offering a retry — start a new run of the flow, or resolve
it from the Pro add-on’s Inbox once you know what actually happened. An incident
already resolved that way is not retried either. If you would rather be told than
go looking, the “a run was dead-lettered” trigger lets one flow react to another
giving up.

### Can a flow wait for a person?

With the Pro add-on. The “Wait for approval” step pauses the run and e-mails one
approver an Approve link and a Reject link; the decision is recorded and the run
continues from exactly where it paused, with the decision, who made it and when 
available to every later step. Only a hash of the link’s token is stored, a second
click cannot change the answer, and you decide in advance what happens if nobody
replies before the timeout — rejection is the default.

### Does anything in the free plugin spend credits?

No. The only thing in Cascade Forge that spends Forge credits is the Pro add-on’s
AI recipe generator, at 3 credits per draft, and the button says so before you press
it.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Cascade Forge – No-Code Workflow Automation & Webhooks” is open source software.
The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ avakodeforge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/avakodeforge/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.8.8

 * Security: the flow editor’s save form is read field by field and sanitised on
   receipt; a flow that fails to save keeps only the sanitised text for you to correct,
   never the raw form.
 * Database queries: the Runs screen search and flow filter, the run claim in the
   flow runner, the failed-run list and its counts, run clean-up, and the dashboard
   figures now use fixed query text with every value bound, instead of building 
   the query from pieces.
 * No change to what the screens show or to how flows run. Flows, settings and run
   history are untouched.

#### 1.8.7

 * New name: Cascade Forge. Flows, settings and run history carry over unchanged.
 * Security: the settings form and every JSON field the flow editors post are sanitised
   as soon as they are received; the `flowforge/settings_saved` hook now receives
   sanitised values.
 * Security: the “Create user” step may choose a role only when the flow’s author
   can promote users, never a role with capabilities the author lacks, and never
   a role that manages users, plugins, themes or options. A refused role fails the
   step before any account is created.
 * Outgoing webhooks are signed in the `X-CascadeForge-Signature` header.

#### 1.8.6

 * **This release needs Cascade Forge Pro 1.6.7 or newer if you run the add-on.**
   The licence class, the License screen, the upgrade prompt and the plan badge 
   in the screen header moved out of this plugin into the Cascade Forge Pro add-
   on. This plugin no longer carries any licence code: it asks only whether the 
   add-on is installed. The License item in the Cascade Forge menu now comes from
   the add-on, so a site without it has no such item.
 * An add-on older than 1.6.7 is not started beside this version, because it would
   look here for code that has moved. A notice on the Cascade Forge screens, the
   plugin list and the dashboard asks for the update and says where to get the package.
 * On a site without the add-on, the Inbound webhooks screen names Cascade Forge
   Pro as the plugin that provides it and links to its page. Nothing on it is locked
   or greyed out.
 * Fixed: with WP_DEBUG on, the flow editor, canvas and history screens no longer
   log “Deprecated: strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1” on PHP 8.1 and later;
   each of the three sets its own title before the admin header is printed.
 * Admin output: the flow editor’s inline save errors are escaped where they are
   printed.

#### 1.8.5

 * The empty Flows screen has a second button, “Start from a recipe”, next to “Create
   your first flow”: it opens the Recipes screen, where the ready-made flows are.

#### 1.8.4

 * Deleting the plugin leaves the job queue the Forge plugins share in place while
   another Forge plugin or add-on is still on the site. The check used to miss add-
   ons, and Rank Forge installed from the WordPress plugin directory, so the queue
   could be dropped while a neighbour still had jobs in it.

#### 1.8.3

 * Declared compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage. Cascade
   Forge reads and writes orders only through WooCommerce’s own order functions.
 * Fixed: the “Update post meta” step now sets the meta on the order itself when
   the ID it is given is a WooCommerce order. Under High-Performance Order Storage
   it wrote to the posts tables, where WooCommerce does not look.
 * Fixed: the Recipes screen listed nothing in the packaged plugin because the build
   left the recipe catalogue out; the ready-made flows are in the package now.
 * Fixed: the “Insert field” menu in a condition row no longer stretches to the 
   width of its longest field name and squeezes the value box beside it.

#### 1.8.2

 * **This release needs Cascade Forge Pro 1.6.2 or newer.** A Pro step now checks
   its own licence inside the add-on; the free runner no longer asks about licences.
 * The notice about an outdated Pro add-on appears on Cascade Forge screens, the
   plugin list and the dashboard only.
 * Request input is sanitised where it is read, database queries are prepared or
   documented, and admin output is escaped.

#### 1.8.1

 * Admin script globals carry the full flowforge prefix instead of flf.
 * The plugin’s site is now cascadeforge.app: the plugin header and the translations
   link there.

#### 1.8.0

 * **This release needs Cascade Forge Pro 1.2.0 or newer** — unchanged from 1.7.1;
   an older add-on adds none of its steps or events, and an admin notice names both
   versions.
 * The Runs screen now honours ?flow_id in its ordinary view, not only in the failed
   one, so a link that names a flow lands on that flow’s runs instead of the newest
   hundred of every flow.

#### 1.7.1

 * **This release needs Cascade Forge Pro 1.2.0 or newer.** An older add-on adds
   none of its steps or events rather than adding them and failing halfway through
   a run. Until you update it, flows that use a Pro step stop at that step; an admin
   notice names both versions, and installing the current add-on brings them back.
 * Deleting the last Forge product on a site now clears the job queue the Forge 
   plugins share — its table, its two scheduled events and its version marker. While
   any other Forge product is still installed, deleting this one leaves the queue
   exactly as it is, because the pending jobs in those rows are that product’s too.

#### 1.7.0

 * Contract regression checks. Record a flow’s current behaviour — a depersonalised
   sample payload and the effects it produces — and every later save (or restore)
   of that flow replays the same sample and compares the result: still matches, 
   differs (with what changed), or nothing recorded yet to compare against. Shown
   on the flow’s own history screen, per version. This is a simulation, exactly 
   like “Test this flow” — labelled as such on screen, and it never writes a run,
   a run step or a receipt.
 * Two new database tables back this: one recorded contract per flow, and one check
   result per flow version. A free-only install can record a baseline and see checks
   with no Pro add-on required.

#### 1.6.0

 * Two new database tables backing the Pro add-on’s Inbox and Connection Health 
   screens: an audit ledger of human decisions on a dead-lettered or uncertain run,
   written only by the Pro Inbox; and a ledger of connection test results, which
   the free runner itself writes to whenever any step’s access is revoked, Pro or
   not. A free-only install has no screen that shows either table. The connection-
   health ledger has no pre-flight check that acts on what it stores at all; the
   decision ledger does — an uncertain run’s own free “Retry” now needs a decision
   recorded in it first, and only the Pro Inbox can record one, so the free Failed
   view explains that instead of offering a retry it is guaranteed to refuse.
 * A Pro connector step whose credential is already known to be revoked — from a
   manual connection test, or from an earlier run that hit the same 401/403 — now
   refuses to start the run at all, before any step of it executes, instead of being
   discovered mid-run.

#### 1.5.0

 * The end of the JSON boxes. Every trigger and every step now draws its own form
   from the parameters it declares — a labelled field with the right control instead
   of a textarea you had to know the shape of. Conditions are rows: field, operator,
   value, with the operator list read from the engine itself so it can never offer
   one the engine does not implement.
 * Next to every text field, an “Insert field” menu carrying the trigger’s own values—`{{
   event.order.email}}` and the like — each shown with a real example from that 
   trigger’s sample payload. A placeholder in a numeric field stays a placeholder
   instead of being coerced to zero.
 * The JSON is still there, under an “Advanced” toggle, and the builder refuses 
   to redraw anything it cannot draw honestly: a nested condition group, a parameter
   no schema knows about, or an OR group on a site without the add-on opens as JSON
   with a note saying why. Without JavaScript the screen falls back to the previous
   editor, and nothing is lost either way.
 * A library of ready-made flows. Twenty of them, grouped by the plugin they lean
   on — a form submission into Slack and a CRM, an order into a webhook, a locked-
   out IP to your team. Every trigger and action in the library is a real id in 
   Cascade Forge’s catalogue, not an invented one — and a recipe this site cannot
   run yet names the plugin it needs.
 * Import lands a draft, never a live automation, and leaves credentials blank on
   purpose. A recipe this site cannot run — because a step belongs to the add-on,
   or the neighbouring plugin is not active — says so in words and offers no button,
   instead of a greyed-out one with no explanation.
 * The AI “Draft the flow” button now quotes its price before the click: it spends
   3 Forge credits, and the number comes from the shared price map rather than being
   typed into the screen. The recipe library next to it costs nothing.
 * A human in the middle of a flow. The Pro add-on gains a “Wait for approval” step:
   the run pauses, one person gets an e-mail with an Approve link and a Reject link,
   and the flow continues from exactly where it paused as soon as they click. Later
   steps can read the decision, who made it and when.
 * The links work once and stop working when the request expires. Only a hash of
   the link’s token is ever stored, so the database never holds a working approve-
   this-run link.
 * You choose what silence means. If nobody answers before the timeout — 24 hours
   unless you say otherwise — the run is rejected, approved or stopped, whichever
   the step was set to. The default is rejection: silence is not consent.
 * A run can never get past an approval step without a decision. If something wakes
   a paused run early, it stops instead of walking through a gate nobody opened.
 * A Failed view on the Runs screen, in the free plugin. A run that has used up 
   its retries now shows the step it stopped on, the error, and a preview of the
   payload it was carrying — with anything that looks like a token, key or password
   blanked out, the same way the “Test this flow” report blanks them.
 * “Retry from failed step”, per run and free. It writes a new run that starts on
   the step that failed, with the original payload, so the steps that already succeeded
   are not run a second time. The failed run is kept exactly as it was, and the 
   new one records which run it came from.
 * A retry is refused if the flow has been edited since the run failed, because 
   the step it stopped on is then no longer that step. The add-on adds “retry all
   failed runs of this flow” for when an API was down all night.
 * New trigger: “a run was dead-lettered”. A flow of your own can now react when
   another flow gives up — page someone, open a ticket, post to a channel. It carries
   the run, the flow, the step and the error, it fires once per failed run, and 
   a flow can never be started by its own failure.
 * A step whose HTTP response is 401 or 403 always dead-letters the run now, even
   one set to continue past a failure — the credential is what needs fixing, and
   continuing anyway used to read as though nothing had gone wrong.

#### 1.4.0

 * Flows that start on a clock. “Schedule — every N seconds” runs a flow on an interval;“
   Schedule — at a time of day” runs it at, say, 09:00 on Monday, Wednesday and 
   Friday. Times are read in the site’s own timezone, not UTC, so 09:00 means 09:
   00 where the site is.
 * Missed schedules do not pile up. If wp-cron has been down for a week, a daily
   flow runs once when it comes back, not seven times, and an occurrence that a 
   whole period has already passed over is abandoned rather than delivered late.
   On a site whose wp-cron does not run at all, a fallback catches up on ordinary
   page loads.
 * Enabling a scheduled flow after today’s time has passed waits for the next occurrence
   instead of firing immediately.
 * A trigger for any WordPress hook. Settings gains an allow-list: write the hook
   name a plugin fires, give it a label, and it appears in the trigger picker like
   any other event. The hook’s arguments arrive in the payload — objects are recorded
   as their class and id only, never unpacked, so a hook that happens to carry a
   user or an order cannot write private data into a run.
 * Hooks that fire on every page load are refused, a watched hook can start at most
   twenty runs per request, and the list holds at most twenty hooks. Watching `init`
   should not be able to take a site down.
 * Both are Cascade Forge Pro triggers and require the add-on, version 1.3.0 or 
   newer. Older add-ons keep working; they simply do not offer them.
 * Run history is pruned at last. The Log retention setting has been on the Settings
   screen since the first release and nothing enforced it, so every run and every
   run step Cascade Forge had ever written was still in the database. A daily clean-
   up now removes finished runs older than the retention window, along with their
   step detail, in batches — a site with years of history catches up over a few 
   nights instead of timing out and never finishing.
 * Nothing the clean-up could damage is touched: a run still executing, and a run
   parked on a Wait step, are kept however old they are, and so is the most recent
   run of every flow — a scheduled flow uses that row to know it has already fired,
   and removing it would send the same digest twice.
 * Deleting a flow now removes the canvas layout that was saved with it, instead
   of leaving one unreadable row behind per deleted flow.

#### 1.3.0

 * Flow history and rollback. Every save of a flow — from the form editor, from 
   the canvas, or from an AI recipe — records what the flow’s definition was at 
   that moment: its trigger, the trigger parameters, the conditions and the ordered
   steps. A History screen on each flow lists them with who saved each one and when,
   and one button puts any of them back.
 * Restoring is never destructive. The definition you are replacing is written to
   the history first, so a rollback can itself be rolled back. The flow’s name and
   its enabled/disabled state are deliberately left alone — restoring an old draft
   must not switch off an automation that is live now.
 * The Runs screen now shows which version of a flow each run actually executed,
   linked to that stored definition. A run that was queued before an edit and executed
   after it records the version whose steps it really ran, not the one it was queued
   under.
 * The fifty most recent versions of a flow are kept. Sites that want a different
   depth can change it with the `flowforge/flow_version_history` filter.
 * Test this flow. A button on the flow editor and on the flows list walks a saved
   flow against the trigger’s sample payload — or one you paste — and reports which
   condition rules matched and what value each of them actually saw, then, step 
   by step, the exact request, message, option, meta, term or user each step would
   produce. Nothing is sent, written or created and no run is recorded.
 * The preview runs the real step handlers, not a description of them, so what it
   reports is what a live run does. Every side effect is held back at a single gateway
   rather than being simulated in a second copy of the engine that could drift.
 * A step is only ever previewed if the plugin that provides it has said its effects
   can be held back. Steps from other plugins are reported as not previewable and
   are never called — a step your site’s own developer wrote can opt in by adding`'
   simulatable' => true` to its registration once every side effect it causes goes
   through FLOWFORGE_Effects.
 * Credentials are masked in the report, including where they sit inside a URL or
   a request body.
 * Requires Cascade Forge Pro 1.2.0 or newer. An older add-on’s steps still work;
   they are reported as not previewable in a test.

#### 1.2.0

 * The Pro catalogue is no longer part of this download. Every Pro step and Pro 
   event now ships in the Cascade Forge Pro add-on and registers itself when that
   add-on is installed — nothing here is a switched-off copy waiting for a licence.
 * All seven WooCommerce triggers and the outbound webhook action are Free. They
   used to require Pro while their code shipped here anyway.
 * The numeric caps are gone: no 3-flow limit, no 100-row history limit. How long
   run history is kept is the Settings  Log retention option, as before.
 * FieldForge triggers, at last: “custom fields updated on a post” and “field group
   saved”. FieldForge has emitted both since 1.0; this catalogue never listened.
   The first is deliberately per post, not per field — FieldForge fires once for
   every field written, and a post with a dozen fields would otherwise start a dozen
   flow runs for one save.
 * Sibling events fixed: LangForge translations and QA failures listen on the hooks
   LangForge actually emits, and the RankForge triggers use the `rankforge.` ids(
   flows saved under the old `seoforge.` ids keep working). The FormForge submission
   trigger fires on a submission instead of on a form being saved.
 * One FormForge submission trigger, not two. The event briefly had a second name
   while its original trigger was on the wrong hook; the trigger list now offers
   a single entry, and saved flows are moved onto it on upgrade. A flow the upgrade
   could not move keeps firing either way.
 * “Run a shell command” is removed from the action catalogue.
 * Requires Cascade Forge Pro 1.1.0 or newer. An older add-on registers no steps;
   Cascade Forge now says so instead of failing the flow silently.

#### 1.1.0

 * Wait / delay steps now really wait. A flow paused on a wait step keeps a resume
   cursor, shows as “waiting” in Runs with the time it comes back, and continues
   from the next step when the pause is over — previously the step after a wait 
   fired immediately.
 * A run parked on a wait step is abandoned instead of resumed if its flow is edited
   meanwhile, so an edited flow can never make a half-finished run send the wrong
   message.
 * Database upgrade to 1.1.0 (two new columns on the runs table). The upgrade is
   verified before it is recorded, so a migration that could not run is retried 
   instead of being skipped forever.

#### 1.0.1

 * AI recipes: describe an automation and get a draft flow, validated against the
   triggers and actions this site actually has.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial public release. WordPress.org Free core; Pro features delivered by the
   separate Cascade Forge Pro add-on.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.8.8**
 *  Last updated **2 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.3**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
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   [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)[workflow automation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/workflow-automation/)
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